17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

Other Translations of Isaiah 5:17

New International Version

17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture; lambs will feedSeptuagint; Hebrew "/ strangers will eat" among the ruins of the rich.

English Standard Version

17 Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

The Message

17 And lambs will graze as if they owned the place, Kids and calves right at home in the ruins.

New King James Version

17 Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture, And in the waste places of the fat ones strangers shall eat.

New Living Translation

17 In that day lambs will find good pastures, and fattened sheep and young goats will feed among the ruins.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 5:17

Commentary on Isaiah 5:8-23

(Read Isaiah 5:8-23)

Here is a woe to those who set their hearts on the wealth of the world. Not that it is sinful for those who have a house and a field to purchase another; but the fault is, that they never know when they have enough. Covetousness is idolatry; and while many envy the prosperous, wretched man, the Lord denounces awful woes upon him. How applicable to many among us! God has many ways to empty the most populous cities. Those who set their hearts upon the world, will justly be disappointed. Here is woe to those who dote upon the pleasures and the delights of sense. The use of music is lawful; but when it draws away the heart from God, then it becomes a sin to us. God's judgments have seized them, but they will not disturb themselves in their pleasures. The judgments are declared. Let a man be ever so high, death will bring him low; ever so mean, death will bring him lower. The fruit of these judgments shall be, that God will be glorified as a God of power. Also, as a God that is holy; he shall be owned and declared to be so, in the righteous punishment of proud men. Those are in a woful condition who set up sin, and who exert themselves to gratify their base lusts. They are daring in sin, and walk after their own lusts; it is in scorn that they call God the Holy One of Israel. They confound and overthrow distinctions between good and evil. They prefer their own reasonings to Divine revelations; their own devices to the counsels and commands of God. They deem it prudent and politic to continue profitable sins, and to neglect self-denying duties. Also, how light soever men make of drunkenness, it is a sin which lays open to the wrath and curse of God. Their judges perverted justice. Every sin needs some other to conceal it.